Question

I’ve been experimenting with Drupal 7 quite a bit and have a doubt with User Roles.

1. In the application that I am trying to create, There are 5 roles for users and there is one role ( say E ), which when chosen, the others ( A, B, C, D ) will grey out or can’t be chosen.

In simple terms,

if( $role chosen == A || B || C || D ) { Options to choose other Roles are available including the Role ‘E’ }

if( $role chosen == E ) { Other Roles are blocked and can’t be chosen }

Is there any possible way I can achieve it ?

2 . I also have another doubt about the statuses of the Roles. Can I Flag users in anyway apart from the default ‘Status’ ? Also, if that is not possible, is there anyway for me to create a new Status ?

Answer 1

For the point #1, you can achieve that using jQuery. You can use the code in this answer to get you started.

For point #2, YES you can flag users. You can add your own filter as a field from admin/config/people/accounts/fields and use Field Permissions module to block users from accessing this field.

Update:
The steps in details:

1- Go to http://[YOUR_SITE.COM]/admin/config/people/accounts/fields

2- Under to Add new field, enter the new field name and under Type of data to store choose List (text). Then click Save

3- In Field settings page, enter the Allowed values list (Speaker, Attendee, …)

4- If Field Permissions module is enabled, you should see Field visibility and permissions in the bottom of the page. Choose Custom permissions and check the roles that can view/edit this field. Then click Save settings.

Hope this helps… Muhammad.